British Rail Engineering Limited Swindon Works Locomotive Works Manager'S Office

SWINDON RODBOURNE ROAD SU 1484 NW British Rail Engineering Ltd Swindon Works Locomotive Works Manager's Office 5/144 18.5.84 GV II

Works Manager's Office, now private offices. 1841, extended 1855-6 and later alterations. Squared rubble with brick and ashlar dressings, slate roofs. 2 storeys, the south block which is 6 x 2 bays, is the oldest part, the south front having been rendered. Behind is a 10 window wing in different coloured stone dating from a later period, except for part of the east wall. All the windows date from the later period and are sashes with glazing bars in cambered brick heads. The 2 blocks have separate hipped roofs with tall brick chimneys. The original part was already the manager's office in 1846 and was presumably designed, built and used by Sir Daniel Gooch. The building was used by Sturrock, Rea, Armstrong, Dean, Churchward etc. when works managers. Of interest as part of the original GWR works designed by Brunel and Gooch and opened in 1843, and extended in 1855-6. It was then altered and extended in the great expansion of the 1870's. One of an important group of Victorian industrial buildings at the GWR works.

Listing NGR: SU1427784962